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was doing, and of the results of each experiment. The writer 

 cannot say. if the results were not thus made known in the 

 great drifter ports in plain and simple language, then some one 

 blundered. This blunder the wTiter would be the last, to fasten 

 on to any particular shoulders, since it was almost certainly due 

 to a defective intelligence system both in the industry and in 

 the fisheries administration. Eegrets are an idle form of 

 exercise. This book is published at the beginning of a new era 

 in the history of the Great Fisheries, and must close on a note 

 of hope for close and intimate collaboration between Business 

 and Science in the future. 



